What kinds of artificial objects do humans already use without complaing about them?
This blogpost will be followed by one referring to newer, not so popular gadgets.
First of all, people who share the opinion that transhumanism is far away and that we should not think too much of it are in the wrong.
Humans already use many gadgets which ameliorate their everyday life, and even help them to live.
This might seem overly exaggerated, but in all honesty, how many people would die if there were no pacemakers? With all the chronic diseases my family has, I am happy to say, and i hope i don't jinx it, no-one in my family needs a pacemaker. But for all those who need a pacemaker, this little apparatus implanted into the chest to avoid abnormal heartbeats by mildly shock the heart to get it into the right rhythm. This little gadget helps humans immensely, but isn't this as well interfering in "god's creation"? Don't we just trick death so that we can live for a few more years?
Of course, you can start now a debate about natural selection and that the human race becomes weaker and weaker with every generation, but I will not go into that today.
A second gadget are artificial limbs.
I haven't met anybody who thought artificial limbs were a bad thing. They help humans to live their life as if nothing ever happened to them, just with some minor constraints. Artificial limbs are in my opinion a good example why we should fund the research of transhumanism and similar studies.
Giving a man artificial limbs is as you would give them back one of their senses. They lost a part of their body as a result of mostly a horrible accident. And humankind managed to find a solution for that. On the example of a soldier, years ago men were left on the battlefield once you saw that his legs were blown off. Now due to medicine and the advancement in technology, we can give them back their lives.
And i think that's similar to the debate whether people should be able to increase their capacities by using technology. People try to improve themselves every day. They work out, they study or they go to school. Mankind seeks to improve itself. And this is the next step in our evolution. People may not be the same after this revolution, but in my opinion we are on the verge to space age. With so many advancements in technology, we could be closer to Sci-Fi-films than we know.
The third gadget humans use are RFID chips. I know i said I didn't want to mention anything not popular, but once I tell you what it is, you might have an aha-experience.
If anyone of you readers out there has a pet, you know what I am speaking of even if you have never heard of this thing. It is the little chip that is implanted into your dog or cat for the case it runs away and is picked up by a dog/cat catcher and brought into an animal home. There they are scanned and if they are chipped they are returned to their respective families.
And basically the same thing exists for humans. A chip the size of a grain of rice is implanted somewhere under the skin and can be used to store medical history, name, address, zip code, credit card data, passwords and so much more.
People implant those chips under their skin either for fun, for utility reasons or for medical reasons if they are dementia-patients.
In my opinion those implants are one of the best things you could get implanted, and if I had the chance, I would probably do it.
Well next time the same thing but more underground!
See you soon!
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